That's Q'aman, the not-so-quiet giant.
It's another one of those statues-cum-phonebooths. They must have been popular in their time.
It's a deep well, with cold, brackish water, and some seriously demented albino fish.
Ah, I get it! Resonance. He's snoring, and the deep bass reverberating through the loudspeaker -- the big head -- causes a resonance that vibrates the entire island.
No wonder you guys are tired of that, if it's been going on for a month.
Wake up. Wake up! Waaake up!
(yawns)
Uh? Who be there?
It's your wake up call, sir.
I'm April Ryan.
I'm God.
(yawns) How long Q'aman be asleep?
About a month. I think you should get up, stretch your legs for a bit.
(sighs) What be the use? Q'aman be an outcast. No one like him.
And me be Q'aman. But what you be doing up in the air, big woman?
Big woman? Watch it, I don't-- Oh, I see. It's just my voice that's big, Q'aman. I'm really quite average, size-wise.
God? Who be that?
God is...ah, forget it, that's just one big minefield. I was just-- Bad joke, is all.
Q'aman always the butt of joke.
Could you please stop snoring?
Q'aman be snoring? No one ever tell Q'aman he be snoring. But then Q'aman always be sleeping by his lonesome. No woman like Q'aman.
Don't say that about yourself, Q'aman, I'm sure that-- You know, it's kinda uncomfortable to be discussing this in, erm, public like this.
Yes, everyone be hearing about Q'aman now.
Do you want to talk about your problems, face to face?
Where are you, Q'aman?
That be a secret. Q'aman want to be left alone.
What be the point?
I'm a good listener, and I'd like to be your friend. That be the point.
Q'aman not sure if he want friend now.
Please let me be your friend.
Why?
Because I'm lonely too. I don't really know anybody on this island, and I need some help.
Well...Q'aman be wanting to help, but...
Okay, Q'aman be your friend, and talk to you. My secret place be in the ruins of the old temple, by the wells. Follow the stream up from the rock beach and go right where it branches.
Thanks, Q'aman. I'll be there as soon as I can.
Bye.
Good bye.
Whoa, you are big. You're just about the biggest person I've ever met.
Q'aman be a freak. No one be liking him.
I didn't mean it that way, I just meant...April, you know just what to say, don't you. I'm sorry. I like tall guys, really I do.
You be the only one, then, because no one else want anything to do with Q'aman.
How did you come to be on this island?
(sighs) That be a long story. Do you want Q'aman to be telling you?
What happened between you and the Orlowol?
I'll see you later, Q'aman.
Do you promise?
I promise. I'm your friend.
Good.
I'll see you later, Q'aman.
Q'aman be grateful for that.
Oh, Q'aman be so clumsy, so dangerous. He should not be among people, he be only hurting them.
The Orlowol be kind, letting Q'aman live and fish in their village. But then, Q'aman be stepping over a young Orlowol, almost breaking his shell.
The Orlowol tell Q'aman to leave village, to not come back because he may kill an Orlowol. They tell him to go as far away as possible...
Q'aman be sad because he like the Orlowol, and because Q'aman be having the best fishing place in all of Alais. He lose his friends and his food.
What do you eat now?
Q'aman fish in these wells, here, but the fish that live down there be small, and not very tasty.
Could you find another place to live where your snoring won't disturb everybody on the island?
No, Q'aman be having no other place to go, except his old home in the Orlowol village, but they be not wanting him there.
Would you like to move back to the Orlowol village?
Oh yes, Q'aman be wishing that more than anything in the world.
I saw an Orlowol down by the beach, just outside the village. It seemed to be in pain, but I didn't know what to do.
Perhaps if you come along, you can help him out, and get back in favor with the Orlowol people?
Yes, perhaps Q'aman can help, even if the Orlowol do not want him back.
Sure, I have time, tell me the story.
No, I'm in a rush, so you'll have to tell me some other time.
Okay.
Many long moons ago, Q'aman be happy. He be working at the Circa in Corasan where he be big attraction.
What did you do?
Q'aman be the World's Strongest Man. He be popular, people come to see him from all the Northlands. Some, even, from east of the Bay of Fire.
But then there be an...accident. And the Circa tell Q'aman to leave, that he be dangerous, and that no one be paying to see him any more.
What kind of accident?
Q'aman's most popular feat be the breaking of a large rock with his fist. Every one would applaud when the rock be breaking.
Then one day, the Khalef be at the Circa, to see the perfomers. He be saying, Q'aman, I hear of him breaking a large rock with his fist, this I want to see.
But my performance be over that day, and there be no rock to break. So the Circa ringmaster Obran, he be saying, let's get a rock in here, any big rock at all.
So they bring in this rock that Q'aman never be crushing before. Q'aman be not sure if it is a good idea, because rock can be dangerous when it breaks.
But Obran be saying, this you must do, the Kalef wants to see, we do not disappoint the Kalef of Corasan or we lose our heads. So Q'aman break the rock, and when it breaks...
What? What happened?
There be large pieces of rock flying everywhere, and one piece be hitting the Kalef and one his son. The Kalef be not seriously hurt, but his son be unconscious, and bleeding from the head.
They say to Q'aman, run, get away from the Circa and Corasan, or the Kalef will have his head. So Q'aman run, and he get passage on ship leaving that night.
When the ship pass this island, Q'aman be jumping into the sea and swimming ashore. And now he be here.
